Browsing Drama by Title
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Present laughter : humour at the site of impact in theatre performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2000)This dissertation examines the implications for the humorous transaction at its immediate site of impact within mimetic theatre performance, as given to the bodied subjects involved. The thesis establishes its theoretical ... -
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and ... -
REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADDRESSING THE CRISES OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH APPLIED DRAMA
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)Liberal democracy is under threat and in a state of crisis around the world. This crisis of democracy is characterised by a rise in right-wing populism, an increase in political strongmen, and an undermining of liberal ... -
Review of book Till Dawn Comes with a Song
(2020)“His grip was firm when he took the note to read the third time. The message stared at him. He stared back at it. The warning was brief and clear-cut. They would kill him if he was not very careful.” These are the opening ... -
The Road to Calvary: Tracing the Diachronic Instability in Representations of the Cleric in Modern Irish Film
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2023)This thesis argues for the diachronic contingency of the priest in modern Irish cinema. This study utilises Richard Kearney?s account of `incarnate? and `excarnate? subjectivity to construct an analogous model for analysing ... -
Robert Serumaga and the golden age of Uganda's theatre : solipsism, activism, innovation (1968-1978)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The theoretical methodology employed in the research and writing of this thesis is primarily postcolonial. Though comparatively nuanced, poststructuralism is also employed. The emphasis in the latter is on the Foucaldian ... -
Same Frame, New Picture: Changing Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Representation in Hollywood Genre Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This study explores the potential of a Hollywood genre film to disestablish those retrogressive gender, ethnic and cultural representations that are frequently encoded in the tropes of Hollywood genre cinema. To that end, ... -
Somatic practice in performance : the Maya Lila project of Joan Davis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Drawing on post-positivist and new paradigm research methodologies, I examine the Maya Lila project of Irish contemporary dancer and choreographer Joan Davis. In Maya Lila, Davis places somatic practices usually used in a ... -
The articulation of the digital audiovisual medium in online video
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2015)In contemporary digital culture all media forms have been subsumed into a single technology - digital data. Pre-digital media discourse was concerned with materially bound, and so physically delimited, forms of media. This ... -
The body sonic : performance of the voice in Paula Meehan's lyrical theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The thesis investigates the dramatic repertoire of contemporary Irish poet and playwright, Paula Meehan (b. 1955). The five chapters explore Paula Meehan’s eight original plays and her theatre collaborations. To explore ... -
The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ... -
The globalisation of Robert Lepage : Québécois cultural politics and contemporary theatre practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2005)This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ... -
The Irish Catholic family in exile : ideological narratives and the uncanny home
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)This thesis uses the dramatic model of the Irish Catholic family as a microcosm through which to examine the ways in which cultural and political ideologies have shaped a particular value-determined narrative of Irish ... -
The Northern revival and the Ulster literary theatre
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The past is myself : constructions of history and memory in the Abbey 2004 Centenary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to position the events of the 2004 centenary of the Irish National Theatre Society, known as abbeyonehundred, within the context of Irish institutional and cultural history. Interdisciplinary ... -
The playfellow of Judas, J.M. Synge : Plays, politics and pre-Christian Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This dissertation provides a cultural materialist reading of J.M. Synge's dramatisation of the cultural residue of pre-Christian Ireland in five of his seven plays: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), Riders to the Sea (1904), ... -
The thrill of estrangement' : ethnicity and theatrical reality in Les Amertumes, Combat de Negre et de Chiens and Quai Ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ... -
The woman with a garden : unearthing the artistry and activism of Constance Markievicz 1908-1927
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)Constance Markievicz, one of Ireland's founding figures, would not define herself solely as a journalist nor playwright yet her playtexts and rhetorical outputs were just as much a part of her activism as her military ... -
Trangression and the sacred : the body as seen through Hijikata Tatsumi's 'Dance of Darkness' and two of his critical Western influences, Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This dissertation examines the body in Butoh performance. The transgressive and sacred potential present within Hijikata Tatsumi’s dance is considered within a post-structuralist conceptual framework. The cultural and ... -
Translating the Tragic: Mimetic Transformation of Attic Tragedies on the Contemporary Stage
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)The present study seeks to answer a fundamental series of questions related to the act of translation immanent to theatrical productions in general: which factors bring the real action into being during a performance? How ...